Distribution of power within the household and child health

By Duncan C. Thomas, D. Contreras, Elizabeth Frankerberg. 2002

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Dowry and Intrahousehold Bargaining (2003, background): “Hence, Thomas, Contreras, and Frankenberg (1997) and Quisumbing and Maluccio (2003) find evidence that women’s share of the assets brought to marriage by the spouses influences children’s health and/or education outcomes in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and South Africa.”
Are Household Production Decisions Cooperative? Evidence on Pastoral Migration and Milk Sales from Northern Kenya (2006, background): “…test for whether the assumptions of the cooperative model hold in consumption decisions tend to reach findings that reject the unitary model but do not reject Pareto efficiency as a characteristic of household decision making (Thomas, Contreras, and Frankenberg 2002; Thomas and Chen 1993).”
Microfinance and Gender Empowerment (2012, background): “…assets brought at marriage, unearned income, or inherited assets, over which each spouse retains separate control within marriage, or exogenous policies that affect men and women's outside options such as divorce or employment laws (Adam et al. 2003, Fafchamps et al. 2006, Thomas et al. 2002).”
Marriage, Bequest, and Assortative Matching in Rural Ethiopia (2005, background): “Quisumbing (1994) and Thomas et al. (1997) examined the effects of assets at marriage on the allocation of land and schooling among children in the Philippines and on child health in Indonesia, respectively.”